DESTRUCTION ALERT: Between December 28, 2023 and April 4, 2024, St. John the Baptist church (S. Hovhannes Mkrtich), a 177 year old landmark in Shusha was destroyed, Azerbaijan’s most egregious violation yet of a December 2021 @ICJ order (tinyurl.com/yr7jvd3r). 1/3

brill.com/view/journals/… [new article, paywalled] Impact of #Türkiye ’s Dam Construction on the Water Resources of Transboundary Aras River Basin in #Iran , by Shabnam Dadparvar, Vali Kaleji, Seyedeh Zahra Ghoreishi, and Hojjat Mianabadi

brill.com/view/journals/… [new article, paywalled] Cost of a Policy: Social Trust and Health Insurance Uptake in #Azerbaijan and Emerging Markets, by Turkhan Sadigov

apply-leadership-programmes.si.se/courses/course… Applications now open for the Swedish Institute's Leader Lab, a virtual programme running April-October. In Eurasia, this programme is open to citizens of # #Armenia , #Belarus , #Georgia , #Moldova and #Ukraine . Deadline: 12 March

Johan Galtung sadly passed away this morning. He was the main founder of PRIO in 1959. Read his obituary here: prio.org/news/3505

Armenia and Azerbaijan: The most recent flare up puts peace prospects on the backburner globalvoices.org/2024/02/16/arm… for Global Voices